Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since several student speakers have been asked to debate tonight, the forensic clash will be held, nevertheless. The subject under discussion will be: "Resolved. That this house believes that capital punishment should be abolished." The speakers representing the affirmative are W. M. Sheehan '29 and R. G. West '29. Those upholding the negative will be Victor Quong '29 and Morrison Sharp '29. After the formal speeches an open forum will be held...
...verdict of a newspaper critic means nothing to an artist, Nevertheless, a critic ought to be a capable man who knows his field, which he should regard as primarily, constructive, not as an excuse for tearing apart everything the artist does. Above all, however, the public should not take the decision of one individual as a final standard: people should remember that this one man is influenced not only by his digestion, but by the weather, the surroundings he lives in and thousands of other circumstances...
Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...
...country is in a bad way. A battle is expected any moment for the control of Yunnanfu. Troops are facing each other only 30 miles east of the city wall. To the south Tooyin of Zemao has declared his independence and has called all the pirates to his assistance. Nevertheless I am going quietly ahead with arrangements for the expedition to the northwest. The bridge across the Hsiangtung river has been taken away and there is no connection between Cheatung and Yunnanfu...
...alone and yet deprived of every supporting hand. It traces her relations with her father's illegitimate children-three mulattos of varying degrees of insanity. It follows Theodosia herself through an awful period of mania. And in the end it leaves her in a pastoral security, safe enough but nevertheless forever marked by the fearful experiences through which she has passed...